Vera Skvirskaja
Associate Professor
Department of Cross-Cultural and Regional Studies
Karen Blixens Plads 8
2300 København S
Primary fields of research
postsocialism, cosmopolitanism, migration, cultural heritage, propaganda, gender, trade, urban markets, political culture, Ukraine, Russia, China, Turkey, Uzbekistan, Black Sea region, the Caucasus
Current research
1. Cultural heritage, Bukharan Jews, mobility and migration, cemetries, cultures of trade, practices of coexistence, diaspora, people's diplomacy, gender, social media.
2. The Russian war (2022- ), patriotic commodities, propaganda, 'relocators', social media.
Sites: Ukraine, Uzbekistan, Russia, the USA, Austria, Israel
Teaching
Propaganda; Kultur- og Samfundsteori; Russian Culture and Society; Popular Geopolitics; Economic Anthropology; Sex and Gender, Kinship; Migration; Postsocialism; Qualitative Research Methods; Ethnographic Fieldwork; New Anthropological Theory; Danish Culture and Society; Urban Culture in Theory and Action; History, myth, and narrative in a cultural and theoretical perspective
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Contested Souls: Christianisation, Millenarianism and Sentiments of Belonging on Indigenous Yamal, Russia
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Odessa: skol’zskii gorod i uskol’zaiushchii kosmopolitizm
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Merchant Identities, Trading Nodes, and Globalization: Introduction to the Special Issue
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